Freak Show
aka America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly As Walt Whitman gazed down the democratic vistas of culture, he tried to see beyond the difference between beauty and ugliness, importance and triviality. It seemed to him servile or snobbish to make any discriminations of...
The Aerodrome
"Mother you held me on your knee. Mother you worked for me. Mother, you taught me to toddle. Mother, you fed me at your dear old breast." His voice died away to a whisper and in the ensuing silence I looked round the tent at the dim, grave faces of the listeners. In...
Wind, Sand and Stars
They are not searching for us yet, or, to be more precise, they are searching elsewhere for us. Probably in Arabia. And in fact we shall hear no plane until tomorrow, after abandoning our own. And that single distant flight will mean nothing to us. Black specks...
Interstellar Dance Machine
Listen to Interstellar Dance Machine byAble Baker Charlie on hearthis.at Intelligent Dance Music (IDM) gets a bad rep because it sounds pretentious and twatty. From memory, the term comes from an early Warp records compilation (Artificial Intelligence) being reviewed...
Intergalactic Disco Music
Listen to Intergalactic Disco Music byAble Baker Charlie on hearthis.at Another day, another (banging) IDM mix. This is actually the second of a pair of mixes, with this one being a little wilder around the edges - think glitchy beats, etc. IDM is music for...